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straight ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, a little shorter 

 than head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter 

 than head, sometimes reaching ventral ; base of latter originating 

 slightly in advance of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as 

 deep. Scales radiately striated, 28-31 1|> 3 between lateral line and 

 ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. 



Brown above, whitish beneath, with a rather indistinct dark lateral 

 band on the posterior half of the body, more distinct on the caudal 

 peduncle ; fins whitish. 



Total length 70 millim. 



Cape Colony." 



: 61. BARBUS ROGERS:, Blgr. 

 Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Pish. Afr., ii., p. 180, fig. 158 (1911). 



" Depth of body equal to length of head, 3| times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 2f times in length of 

 head ; interorbital width 3 times in length of head ; mouth very 

 small, inferior ; lips moderate ; barbels absent or a single minute one 

 on each side. 



Dorsal iii 8 ; equally distant from anterior border of eye and from 

 caudal, border straight ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as 

 long as head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral f- length of 



FIG. 89. Barbit* rogerxi. 



head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of 

 dorsal. Caudal peduncle H times as long as deep. Scales radiately 

 striated, 27-28 j^, 2 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. 



Silvery, back olive ; a blackish streak from the end of the snout, 

 through the eye, and along the lateral line to the root of the caudal ; 

 dorsal edged with blackish. 



Total length 55 millim. 



Que River, Angola ; Upper Zambesi." 



